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Foreign trade: Major exports—automobiles, chemicals, machinery, manufactured goods. Major imports—chemicals, food products, machinery, petroleum and petroleum products. Major trading partners—Austria, China, France, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States.

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Population density: 585 per mi2 (226 per km2).

Distribution: 74 percent urban, 26 percent rural.

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Government

Head of state: Federal president.

Head of government: Federal chancellor.

Legislature: Parliament of two houses—the Bundestag and the Bundesrat. The Bundestag is more powerful than the Bundesrat.

Executive: Federal chancellor (elected by the Bundestag). Chancellor selects Cabinet ministers.

Judiciary: Highest court is the Federal Constitutional Court.

Political subdivisions: 16 states.

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Chief products: Agriculture—barley, beef and dairy cattle, chickens, grapes, hogs, potatoes, sugar beets, wheat. Manufacturing—cement, chemicals, electrical equipment, machinery, metals, motor vehicles, processed foods, steel, tools. Mining—coal, petroleum, potash, salt.

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Major ethnic/national groups: 95 percent German, 5 percent other Europeans.

Major religions: 30 percent Protestant (chiefly Lutheran); 30 percent Roman Catholic; 5 percent Muslim.

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80,722,000
this country is in stage 3